{"id":49,"date":"2006-09-16T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=49"},"modified":"2006-09-16T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T12:03:24","slug":"hipp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/49","title":{"rendered":"More fun with Hippopotami."},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Jalopy writes a great commentary<\/a> on Royal Copenhagen’s Hippopotamus Service<\/a> (warning – link to PDF). That would be service as in twelve dozen pieces of hand-painted porcelain – Royal Copenhagen will not check your hippo’s fluid levels (and don’t get me started on another definition of service as a verb).<\/p>\n

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My brain just cramped – I needed to go look it up, but anyway – hippos are bulls, cows and calves. Remembering this kind of info has a slightly higher current priority; when I went in to vote in the recent primary the Town Moderator was trying to convince the Town Clerk that the right word for a male bear was… I got the quiz, answered boar, sow, cub and was declared a genius by the Moderator. That discussion was occasioned by the presence – in the playground of the elementary school next door to my house – of a medium sized black bear. The kids didn’t get to go out for recess that day and it’s been the talk of the town since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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